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...journey that began, at least symbolically, on a gloomy Sunday in Christchurch, New Zealand. Cooped up in a hotel room so dreary that he drank the contents of the mini-bar, Paul Theroux was continents away from his London home, newly separated from his wife, afraid that he might have cancer (not so, it turned out) and depressed by the prospect of war in the Persian Gulf. "Get me out of here," he said to himself and headed for the wilderness -- because, he wrote, "as long as there is wilderness there is hope...
...father, plastic surgeon Elizabeth Morgan sent the girl into hiding and spent more than two years in a Washington jail. Now Hilary Foretich, the seven-year-old girl at the center of one of the most bitter and highly publicized custody cases in memory, has been found in Christchurch, New Zealand...
Foretich, who vehemently denied Morgan's allegations and countercharged that she was mentally ill, offered a $50,000 reward for information on Hilary's whereabouts. The child was traced to Christchurch after the BBC television show Kilroy aired a documentary about the case. Among those who watched the program was a teacher at Beechford College, a girls' prep school in Plymouth, England, who informed the show's producer, Di Burgess, that Hilary had been a student there. The school's headmistress, Pat Holdness, told the London Times that Hilary's grandparents enrolled her in 1987 under the name Ellen Morgan...
...Zealand, meanwhile, Labor Party Prime Minister David Lange said he had agreed to let U.S. military aircraft land at the Christchurch air base on South Island. The arrangement, which Lange revealed last week under pressure in parliament, seems to make a mockery of his opposition to nuclear-armed ships docking in New Zealand ports. Lange's stand on that issue in 1985 effectively destroyed the ANZUS mutual defense treaty between the U.S., New Zealand and Australia...
...Luxembourg, protesters swamped the U.S. and Japanese embassies with so many telephone calls that they blocked the lines. In cities as far apart as Bonn, Stockholm, Amsterdam and Christchurch, New Zealand, demonstrators paraded outside the two nations' embassies. In Copenhagen, the harbor statue of the Little Mermaid had a Japanese flag draped at her feet and was blindfolded with an American flag; she was also impaled by a symbolic harpoon. These protests were held around the world last week in the name of peace-peace for the threatened leviathan of the deep, the sperm whale...